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Demography is destiny: IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has released the updated Intergenerational Report (IGR) showing that while the impact of population ageing is Australia's biggest policy challenge, incorporating its imperatives into Government policy can pay big dividends later ...

A fund that holds water

... freshwater outstrips supply. Between 1990 to 1995, global freshwater consumption rose six-fold, more than twice the rate of population growth over the same period. Company valuations are also set to change depending on which companies become more efficient ...

Time for Aussies to go global with property: APN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
The time has come for Australian investors to tap into global property opportunities with the asset class becoming truly globalised, according to APN Funds Management. Mike Doble, director of Retail for APN Funds Management, said that Australian investors ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... the highest increase in children born in Australia for 25 years with in excess of 135,000 newborns added. The annual population growth reached a five-year peak of 1.32 per cent helped by the biggest migrant intake for 17 years. In the quarter to September ...

ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... under fire for its plan to build a high speed broadband fibre to the node (FTTN) network covering 98 per cent of the population, with the $4.7 billion dollar project to be bankrolled by the Future Fund's remaining 17 per cent stake in Telstra. Opposition ...

DeAM launches global agribusiness fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... world, but also to produce more quality food to meet the changing nutritional needs of [the] increasingly affluent population." Barbour said global prosperity has had an enormous impact on consumption patterns particularly among growing middle classes ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Population ageing and its implications is Australia's central long-term policy challenge requiring an update to the Intergenerational Report, said Treasurer Peter Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... about 2 per cent and those for most award workers had fallen about one per cent so far. Australia is now ranked 54th in population on a global basis and this is expected to slip to 67th by 2050 according to the US Bureau of Census' International Data ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... growth was 5.4 per cent last year it is expected to be about 4.7 per cent this year. The impact of economic growth on population growth can be seen from ABS data that reveals that the resource rich states of Queensland and Western Australia have led ...

Daily Economic Update

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2007
... keep a baseline level of support under the market. A study by Professor Bob Birrell of Monash University's Centre for Population and Urban Research has found that 34 per cent of about 12,000 international students who were awarded an 880 visa to remain ...